![]() ![]() They’re the twelfth expedition sent by secret agency called the Southern Reach, with a mission to observe and report what’s going on in this supernaturally sealed part of the United States that nature has begun to reclaim. In Annihilation (at least in the novel), there are four unnamed female characters (a biologist, a surveyor, a psychologist and anthropologist) traveling through a wild landscape called Area X, that’s more or less like a Civilization auto-generated map that got drunk. This was one weird, uncomfortable and challenging little book that will creep you out better than any monster book you’ve been reading righ tnow. It’s coming out on Netflix next Sunday, so I figured I would VanderMeer’s book a spin in anticipation. ![]() ![]() Apparently it was great, but the movie studio went out of its way for us not to see it. Garland released a new movie called Annihilation, adapted from a Jeff VanderMeer novel, last winter. One of these is Alex Garland, writer of The Beach and, more recently, writer and director of science fiction scorcher Ex Machina. There are few creators I will never say no to: James Ellroy, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Laird Barron, etc. ![]()
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